Star Valley Motel Manager Arrested

Officers from the Payson Police Department, with assistance from Gila County Sheriff's deputies, have arrested the manager of a Star Valley motel suspected of dealing methamphetamine. Officers served a search warrant on the residence of Vicky Lynn Jones, 48, Star Valley, on the afternoon of Dec. 17th, seizing large quantities of meth, marijuana and prescription narcotics. Six different bindles of meth, 80 morphine pills and liquid methamphetamine. Detective Jason Hazelo, of the Payson Police Department's Meth Enforcement Program, said Jones cooperated with officers, showing them where the drugs were. Hazelo said he doesn't believe Jones was manufacturing the meth, but was smoking liquid methamphetamine. Jones was arrested and charged with possession of dangerous drugs for sale, possession of marijuana for sale, possession of narcotic drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia. Other charges are pending.